Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Your Excellencies, for attending here today. I know that the world of diplomacy is a delicate place to be, and I commend you on the manner in which you presented yourselves.
I'd like to begin by picking up on a statement that you made, Mr. Brinkmann, that the EU is one market and therefore you need a level playing field. I'm old enough to remember when the EU was the European Common Market. So when you say that, I think in terms of an economic market. Is that what you meant when you said it was one market, an economic market, and therefore you need a level playing field?